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Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many. .Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Heart language is logic set on fire.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace,Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Be interested yourself, and you will interest others.Charles Haddon Spurgeon